For us, thinking up designs is an intellectual production activity, where we select essential themes, apply logic to them, and end up with reasonable solutions. By utilizing designs that combine necessity with amenity, we are able to realize social infrastructure that is both beautiful and functional.
As part of an effort to promote waterfront tourism, we provided detailed designs for everything integral to plans for the river, including the bridge, bridge-top facilities, color, and lighting.
We provided a design that preserves the local, historical assets as much as possible, yet adds new value to it and allows visitors to catch a glimpse of vestiges of ancient times.
As part of a construction effort to revitalize this hot spring district, we provided designs for a promenade and foot bath that utilized the former site of a Japanese-style inn, as well as managed the construction.
“Okinawa Prefecture’s longest outlying island connection bridge”
Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture
PC32-span continuous girders, etc.
Bridge Length: 3.54km/Longest Span Length: 120m
“An internationally rare consecutive cable-stayed bridge with five main columns”
Hanoi, Vietnam Steel cable-stayed bridge
Bridge Length: 1500m/Main Span Length: 300m
“Imagined after clear tubes reflecting on the water surface”
Nishi-ku, Yokohama City
Rigid-frame structure with two-span continuous steel slab box girders
Bridge Length: Approx. 101.5m/Effective Width: 10.4m
“A smooth arch that utilizes beautiful quartic curves”
Adachi-ku, Tokyo Steel through arch bridge
Bridge Length: 105m/Arch Span Length: 74.4m
“The Sumida River’s first bridge, closest to the sea”
Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Steel half-through balanced arch bridge
Bridge Length: 245m/Arch Span Length: 145m
“Simply beautiful design”
Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture
Rigid-frame bridge with continuous steel slabs and girders
Bridge Length: 697m
“Japan’s largest arch bridge”
Kamiamakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Steel PC composite half-through arch bridge
Bridge Length: 465m/Arch Span Length:
When it came time to submit a plan, we submitted one that included both park plans and a pedestrian bridge design. The bridge design is one that is based on barrier-free design, right down to every detail.
We provided a design that included an adjacent round plaza. During the summer, children play in the center fountain of the plaza.
This was built to be the main route to the Nagano Olympics. We provided a tunnel portal design with gentle crest curves and intimate bordering.
We provided a secure, easy to enter approach design that features a distinct solid structure that gives off a sense of unity with the terrain.
We provided a design that frankly expresses people’s movements along a complex intersection without being too eye-popping, while including ascending and descending access in every detail.
We provided a design for the main bridge section where the space below the beams could act as a bus stop and hotel entrance, without lowering the value of the area.
We utilized a scheme that takes the environment into consideration, as well as reduces the amount of luminance reflected off the concrete, for three long bridges that appear along the route.
We took the basic design for the tunnel portal created by the Yanagi Design Office, and implemented designs for the retaining wall of the depressed road, plantation, and tunnel interior.
We implemented a carefully developed plan that alters the abundant natural environment as little as possible, and does not hinder existing landscapes.
We provided a road design focused on improving the safety and convenience of the area. Our plan utilized fieldstone retaining walls for the mountainside bridges, tunnel portals, etc.
We took a comprehensive approach to the design that includes a feeling of openness, so that residents can use the park freely, a jogging course set around the outer circumference of the track, a reverse-direction course for when the wind is strong, and nighttime compatibility.
We implemented a safe, pleasant, easy-to-use open-space design that attracts all kinds of people to its station-front location with its charm.
自然環境豊かな地域を道路が通過せざるを得ないため、改変地の傍に同様の生物生息基盤を創出する計画・施工管理を実施
